The Conservative Zone

Friday, April 30, 2004

Outta time

Go get 'em Ollie

Olliver North rips Andy Rooney a new one in this op-ed, They're heroes to me. I wrote about Andy's article here, the original article is no longer online.

May 1 marks the start of Military Appreciation Month. Millions of Americans will show their gratitude for the troops in a variety of ways. When Lance Corporal Conyers appeared with me the other night on Fox News's "Hannity & Colmes," Sean Hannity showed his appreciation to Conyers by promising to buy him a big, thick, juicy steak from Ruth's Chris steakhouse when he gets home. What are you going to do for them, Andy, other than criticize? One thing you could do to show your appreciation for our troops who are defending your right to speak is to shut the hell up.

Repeat that bears repeating

We've been down this road before. Explaining how if we can get the dominoes to fall the right way in Iraq, the rest of the Arab world could very well follow, bringing stability to an unstable place in the world. Iraq Key to Arab World Democracy explains what is going on.

Let me quote the important part of the article:

Just as Americans toughed out the dark days of the titanic battles with Nazism, fascism and communism last century, so must we tough out the titanic battle with Islamic fascists this century.

Look at the enemy in Iraq. His savage tactics -- killing civilians and soldiers alike, Iraqis and coalition forces indiscriminately -- indicates what Iraq would be like should we cut and run.

The barbarians would again wreck havoc there. Rather than sickening torture and brutality being inflicted by Saddam's regime, it would now be inflicted by local power brokers.

No great improvement for a lot of American prestige, blood and treasure spilled.

The enemy now fights in Iraq with fierce determination. But for what? To end American occupation? That'll happen in 90 days or so, with Iraqis assuming sovereignty. To restore Saddam? The coward -- who sent millions of young Iraqis to die in battle, and himself meekly surrendered with a rifle in his lap -- would be torn to sheds were he not incarcerated, and protected, by American troops. To establish a mullah-cracy, as in Iran? Just go next door and ask Iranians how they like life under their corrupt, incompetent and vicious mullahs.

No, the enemy's purpose is to end any U.S. attempt to spread decency and, yes, democracy in the Arab world. The stakes are high in Iraq. If it goes right there, peaceful transformations can go right in Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states --even Saudi Arabia and Iran.

If Iraq goes even wrong-er, the more reasonable Arab countries will be on the defensive, getting even worse than now. Our own battles against Islamic fascists (search) will be even more isolated and difficult than now.

Sure, we're doing all this for Iraq's future. But we're doing this for our own future, too. We must stay the course, lest increasingly dark dots paint our future.

This is important to remember. We make or break the next hundred years right now in Iraq.

Death in perspective

I bring this up because there are people who wail about "all the deaths in Iraq." I want to bring some perspective onto this subject.

First of all, we have lost approximately 527 soldiers in the year since we brought down the statue of Saddam. We are currently attempting to pacify a section of Iraq that Saddam couldn't pacify.

We lost 17,401 people last year, just from DUI accidents. That's about 1,450 people a month. 47 a day, every day. And these deaths are young and old, male and female, black and white. Children are dying in these cars because some idiot thinks he can drive better drunk than sober.

Here's another statistic. We lose about 5,000 babies a year, all under the age of three. If losing a soldier is a tragedy, then losing a child is a catastrophe.

These soldiers are dying for something. They are dying to provide a peace that the world may yet see. Dying in a DUI accident, or in a diaper pail is a wasted death.

Please, make the distinction and don't let our military deaths become wasted deaths.

Air "Hate America" radio

No numbers are given, but anybody who isn't already a deep liberal is quickly tired of the diatribe coming from those stations. I tried giving it a listen, I really did. But the constant cutting-down of everybody made me feel like this was a multiple-hour comedy show, or I was in the 8th grade all over again.

The only thing they did was ridicule: the CIA, the military, the cops, President Bush, you name it. This is Hate Radio.

With hate speech like this, you're only going to get the already converted, and alienate any moderates and certainly not win any conversions from the Conservative side of the aisle. At least when Rush puts something down, he puts the action down, not the person and he backs it up with facts. This wins people over from both the Liberal and moderate camps.

Liberals and Democrats have a tendency to only talk to each other. According to their ratings, no one else is tuning in. The Democrats should heed the maxim, "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much." And no one tunes in. The overwhelming popularity of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and conservative websites such as FrontPage Magazine prove where America really stands. It does not stand with the Left, and it certainly does not stand with Air America.

The party of diversity has none. They refuse to listen to any ideas other than their own. They refuse to look at facts. I can't blame them, when you're as wrong as often as they are, you'd ignore the plain, clear facts too.

More Big Brother

This is going too far, but then again they have the money to pay the taxes to make their little town an electronic fortress, most likely to the same standard that their own houses are wired up to.

This is the hard way that they will find that computers are as fallible as people. All that needs to happen is one plate gets misread and get crossed with either a stolen car or a car of a violent felon. Then a felony stop gets performed on a rich lady and that security system for the town will be tossed out so fast it will make your head spin.

Freedom is like air. You never notice how valuable it is until it's gone.

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Humor Wednesday

Stick a fork in him...

...he's done.

When the Village Voice, that last bastion of Liberalism says that Kerry is unelectable, you better believe it. John Kerry Must Go and there is no doubt about it.

With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton's triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.

I love the smell of burning Liberals in the morning. When they set themselves on fire by making stupid mistake after stupid mistake, it smells like...victory.

Oh, sure, the fight hasn't begun yet, we're still firing ranging shots. A brilliant move at the Democrat convention would be to actually nominate somebody else instead of Kerry, which would screw up the GOP machine. We're so invested and set-up to devastate Kerry that if they elect an Edwards/Clinton ticket (or Dean/Edwards, etc., you get the idea) instead, there will be some grinding of the gears as we reset to take care of the new contender.

Don't take it for granted that Kerry will make it. The GOP has done such a good job of burning Kerry at the stake and he is such an uninspiring candidate, that the majority of people voting for him are doing it because he's not Bush. Imagine if they found a truly popular candidate.

Good News!

If you listen carefully, you can hear something shifting deep beneath the manic surface of American culture. Rap stars have taken to wearing designer suits. Miranda Hobbs, Sex and the City's redhead, has abandoned hooking up and a Manhattan co-op for a husband and a Brooklyn fixer-upper, where she helps tend her baby and ailing mother-in-law; even nympho Samantha has found a "meaningful relationship." Madonna is writing children's books. Gloria Steinem is an old married lady.

Yessiree, family values are hot! Capitalism is cool! Seven-grain bread is so yesterday, and red meat is back!

It is a somewhat long article, but it provides example after example that things are looking up in the old US of A. The bad things are down, the good things are back. It looks like the nuclear family is reforming and so on. It did my heart good to read these things and it should do the same to you.

Ribbons and Medals

4 Mile Creek, run by an Army officer currently in Iraq, lends his commentary in the debate over Ribbons vs. Medals. I couldn't have said it better myself.

(Update) I've earned all my medals and I'm damn proud of them. The ribbons I wear on my uniform, that represent those medals, also represent the pride I feel in what I do for a profession, the sacrifices my family has made during my deployments, and the recognition I've received for being a good soldier.
Throw them away?
Hell, I better be buried with 'em on.

This new information shows that a conflict of interest exists with Justice Margaret Marshall, whether she admits it or not. She should have recused herself from the case, which would have resulted in a 3-3 tie and thrown the case out. Instead, it passed 4-3 and Justice Marshall wrote the majority opinion.

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Eugenics

Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, had some rather, um, strong views on parenthood back then.

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood had this to say about blacks, immigrants and indigents: "…human weeds, 'reckless breeders','spawning…human beings who should never have been born.' (Pivot of Civilization).

On the extermination of blacks: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said. "If it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon).

Like advocates of population control at the United Nations, Sanger believed that couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, as she wrote in her Plan for Peace Birth Control Review, April 1932.

I lost the quote, but it said that Hitler got his idea for exterminating the Jews from the American eugenics movements. I know the laws against Jews were nothing more than an expanded set of Jim Crow laws. Which would explain why Hitler thought America would join him in his war.

The 30's was an, interesting, period of our history. While it has been romanticized, I don't think I would want to go through it. Between the Depression, racism and a build up to a world war, it must have been even more scary time than now. Too bad I can't ask my parents about it any more. They died three months apart about two years ago.

To get back to modern times, if word of Ms. Sangers manifesto (especially if PP still uses it) gets out, it could really hurt Kerry. I hope it does.

Guns are icky to Europeans

We are up against an enemy that understands nothing but the use of open, naked force. That's what they want to use on us and we must be willing and able to inflict twice as much back on them to either wipe them out or get them to realize that it's not worth it.

But these Europeans, who all just want to get along, don't want armed people (even if it is police) on airplanes. Of course, should a 9/11 happen to them, then they will arm the planes better then the Israel's airline (the name escapes me).

Jessie's got Foot-in-Mouth

The murdering bastards in Iraq are not the American troops, but rather the cowardly insurgents they are fighting. It is the homicide bombs that are killing the children and other innocents in Iraq, not our soldiers.

Another Liberal suffering from Cranial-Rectal Inversion. (That's medial-speak for he's got his head up his ass)

Monday, April 26, 2004

Wow

While I got some things done today, I also had two major attacks and three minor ones. What a day. It is very upsetting to be sidelined for a couple of hours, cowering in a corner or under the covers, unable to do anything about it.

Do you really want HIM in the White House?

Watching Meet the Press yesterday, they had a poll for the Democrats and the largest percentage of those who would vote for Kerry (38%) would do so because simply he's not Bush. Which means 38% of the Democrat electorate would probably vote for Satan before they would vote for Bush.

Simply, it's seething hatred against a man who is doing the right thing without lamenting over it. Bush is quietly doing what he sees as the right thing to do, without having to consult polls or focus groups. Bush is a man of inner strength, strong morals and a clear set of core values, none of which is possessed by either the prior president, nor the current Democrat contender.

I think this is what pisses the Left off more than anything. Bush sees things in black and white instead of the intellectual "nuanced" view of infinite shades of grey. His clear idea of good and evil clashes with the Liberal outlook of "those people aren't really bad, they're just disadvantaged." They may be disadvantaged, but that is no excuse for the outright evil of wanting to kill other people wholesale simply because we believe differently than they do.

Liberals who moan and wail over this war hold the belief that the US deserved 9/11. Those people have no idea as to the true relationship of such things as war and peace.

The opposite of war is not peace, but slavery. For as long as there are people who are willing to violently push their agenda, your choices are to either violently resist or submit. Never forget this.

Rocketry news

There has been a lawsuit going on for some time between the National Association of Rocketry and the Tripoli Rocketry Association vs. BATFE. Well, the judge in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC agreed with the rocketeers and told the BATFE to get their grubby little fingers out of our hobby.

The ruling is rather specific, but it's a crack and we are going to try and make it wider faster than the BATFE can nail it shut.

Today in history

Boy was this a busy week. Last Monday was Waco and Oklahoma City, Tuesday was Columbine, now today was Chernobyl. Conducting unauthorized experiments, one of the nuclear reactors exploded and then melted into the offices under the reactor. Hundreds of people died from radiation exposure, thousands more from cancer brought about by the radiation. The cloud reached into parts of Eastern Europe.

The town is deserted today, except for the reactor operators who continue to operate the remaining reactor and supply power to the (relatively) unaffected towns in the surrounding area.

Ignoring the minority vote

I got this from a NewsMax email alert, so I'll quote the whole thing here:

Kerry Ignores Black Congressman

America's self-described would-be "second black president" has a lot of work to do to shed his image as an uptight, condescending New Englander.

This was obvious during Kerry's visit this past week to Palm Beach County, Fla.

Our reporter on the scene was surprised by the crowd at Palm Beach Community College.

The speech was billed as part of Kerry's "college tour." But only a handful of young people bothered to show up.

Kerry's campaign claimed 3,000 attendees. We counted only a few dozen blacks and even fewer Hispanics. Bad news for a party that takes the black and Latino vote for granted.

Of course, the Massachusetts Democrat exploited the few blacks who did show up by stacking the benches on stage with an unusually high percentage of his "multi-cultural" campaign. Such a nice photo opportunity, accurate or not.

But Kerry's discomfort with nonwhites was apparent in the way he introduced the VIPs campaigning with him.

He gushed over Sens. Bob Graham, Bill Nelson and Joe Lieberman and insisted that each one take the spotlight for a softball question from the crowd.

And he practically ignored the black congressman who was with them, Rep. Kendrick Meek.

Finally, midway through Kerry's harangue, which he had labeled as a "town meeting," Kerry suddenly dropped a reference to Meek - and then ignored him for the rest of the rally.

Yes, yes, yes. The party of tolerance and diversity. We all know how well blacks were integrated into the "first black presidency." Oh, that's right. They weren't. They ran smack dab into that infernal glass ceiling. They were there for tokens, and I ain't talking subway tokens.

It's really a shame when it comes right down to it. The "champion" of the black people does more to keep them in their place than the so called "slavemaster Republicans." Just remember, when it came down to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Republicans were FOR it, the Democrats were AGAINST it.

It's the Democrats that had the KKK members, it's the Democrats that stood in the doorways of schools and colleges and said, "You filthy [N-word]s ain't getting in here!"

Friday, April 23, 2004

I apologize

I know you're waiting for my witty, rapier-like remarks on Liberals and stuff like that, but my attacks are back. I get to spend an hour or two researching and writing, then have to spend more time hiding under the covers or in the closet. I haven't had the mental clarity to bring forth the comments that I would like to on the world. My comments on news articles have been placeholders to keep things rolling here.

When I feel better, I might try working on expanding my core values over there to the right. Who knows. I have a medication appointment next Wednesday, let's hope I can get a positive change to my cocktail.

But now in many, if not most, areas of environmental protection, we have reached the point of diminishing returns and we must look hard to see whether we are producing real benefits for the costs incurred.

For those of you who don't know what the "point of diminishing returns" means, let's put it this way:

You have a computer that you want to upgrade. For $100, you can double its performance. You like what you got even better, so you invest another $200, but this time you can only squeeze out a 50% increase of performance. Then only 25%, 12% and so on, until it costs $1000 to get you a 1-2% increase of performance. Is that small increase of performance worth that amount of money?

So we are faced with here. If we poured an almost infinite amount of money into it, we possibly could reach perfection, but is there an acceptable level that is "good enough?" Of course the eco-nuts want perfection, they have no real-world realities to get in their way of a perfect nature. We all want perfection, but most of us realize that we can't have our lifestyle as it is today without some pollution. We just have to find out what is an acceptable level and work towards that.

I don't like pollution, but I accept a limited amount as a byproduct of our society. One that has transportation that can take me around the world in hours. A world that has miraculous medical practices. An existence where I don't have to live in a dirt floor hut and worry about dying of old age because I'm 42. Eco-nuts may think that kind of "natural" existence is the way to go, but I don't.

Kerry War discrepancy

At least one and probably more actions were claimed by Kerry that were not his.

Vietnam combat records posted on John F. Kerry's campaign website for the month of January 1969 as evidence of his service aboard swift boat No. 94 describe action that occurred before Kerry was skipper of that craft, according to the officer who said he commanded the boat at the time.

This puts a hole in his boat, doesn't it? After all, "sexing up" reports that could be easily countered with the facts does seem to be a frequent way this campaign shoots itself in the foot.

It could be Kerry's head is so far up his ass that he thinks he can say anything and not worry about other people coming up with the facts to disprove him.

More Kerry funny stuff

Like the difference of who 'owns' the SUV matters. My wife can't drive, but for numerous reasons, she owns our (dead) family vehicle. I'm the one who drives it because I have the license. Same thing here. It doesn't matter who owns the vehicle, as long as someone in the immediate family does, then in essence, so does John.

Get over it, you have a gas-guzzling SUV, whether or not you admit it.

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Jobs going overseas

You know, I usually don't watch The West Wing, but it's the only thing on before Law and Order. Anyway, they had one scene where CWA (Communication Workers of America) reps were in the White House trying to hold the administration to a promise to keep their jobs in America instead of "letting" them go overseas. That's what brought my attention to this: Outsourcing Debate Tainted by Myths, Misconceptions.

It is very important that you read this article and know the facts of the case instead of relying on limited anecdotal evidence. While we lose certain jobs overseas, we pick up more from insourcing, other countries outsourcing to us.

But that’s not usually the way it works. Many times, American companies will create new jobs specifically for overseas workers, jobs they’d never consider if forced by law to give them to Americans, because they’d be too expensive. Many recent domestic start-up companies have spent their first few years of existence employing only overseas workers, with a few executives here in the U.S. overseeing things. Once they’ve established financial footing, these companies can then expand, and begin to hire more expensive American workers.

America is actually a net importer when it comes to jobs. Far more foreign companies come to America to hire people than American companies go overseas to hire cheap foreign labor. We’re even a net importer of tech jobs.

There are only some things you can outsource, other things must stay here in the US because you just can't run wire and do installs from India.

There’s no doubt people get hurt in the short-run when the economy shifts and embraces new business models, but it’s been that way since the industrial revolution. Those self-correcting measures have in the long run made us the most prosperous, comfortable and productive society in history.

Diaperless babies

Here is another classic example as to why the far-Left environmentalism groups are wacko. They now want to get rid of diapers because they are a hazard to world health and contribute to landfills. Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution.

Their idea is to "get in tune with the baby to predict their movements." Yeah, right. And their solution is to hold the child over the toilet, bucket, bush, etc, providing we correctly predict the moment has arrived.

And just to show you how stupid and hypocritical these eco-nuts are, here's a quote:

[Scott] Noelle finally chose to go diaperless and looked to traditional cultures for inspiration. "How I longed for a simple, dirt-floored, baby-friendly hut like that of a Yequana family," he wrote.

If Scott really wants a dirt floored house, why doesn't he live in one? I'm sure he would love the rest of the natural things the Yequana have to worry about, like dying of old age at 40, rampant disease, 1/3 of babies dying in the first year of life, a good portion of women dying in childbirth, etc.

He has it so good that he doesn't know how good it is, which is probably why him and his fellow nuts long for the old life. They don't realize how tough of a time our ancestors had it.

No MI5 in the US

This is a bad idea. Law enforcement already has these apparatus' in place, and with Homeland Security, we are already skating the edge of having a secret police. I do not want a Gestapo spying on every move I make, especially with extra-Constitutional powers that such internal security forces might want "to do their job the right way."

Therein lies the path to a police state, and that is the last place I want to live in.

Out of time

Non-citizen voting

While the story goes out of its way to say (several times) that "non-citizen voting is not prohibited by the Constitution," it still isn't right. The Oath of Citizenship, whose first part is, "...that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen..." So it assumes that immigrants still have allegiances to their country of origin until they become American citizens.

Which leads to an interesting question. What if, a group of Arabs filled up a school district, elected a majority of sympathetic politicians and, by using the force of the majority, started calling for anti-US propaganda to be taught in these schools? Don't laugh, because it could happen. We are already on that verge with the Liberals in control of the schools, it wouldn't be too far to start active anti-American "teaching."

Anything can happen. It's up to the citizenry to make sure that it doesn't.

Monday, April 19, 2004

I did a bad thing

I played hooky from work Saturday so I could attend a Rogue Trader tournament. Games Workshop (the people who own Warhammer 40K) opened a manufacturing facility here in Memphis, and they used some of the warehouse space to create a "Battle Bunker," a 2,000+ square foot gaming area.

Anyhow, I played three games and I had the same results as the tournament at MidSouthCon. One game I was obliterated, one game I obliterated my opponent and one game I barely won. With 26 players in the tournament, I finished a respectable 9th. No certificates this time, but I did enjoy myself. Please don't tell anybody at my work, okay? Thanks.

Anniversary

Today marks the anniversary of two heinous acts in American history. In 1993, an overzealous Federal Agent force burned the Branch Davidians to death. A truly black day in history, when you have a government kill its own citizens wholesale, whatever the reason.

Also, at this moment, today in 1995, our worst case of domestic terrorism took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Friday, April 16, 2004

American Empire

If we get a NBC attack in this country (and I'm betting on one between 10/10 and 10/31/04) we are going to find out who did it, then show the world exactly what a saturation-level nuclear strike does. That will be our big stick. Then we will speak quietly, asking for every terrorist, every cell, every organization, and those who do not comply, wash, rinse, repeat.

What would an American empire look like? Post-war Iraq shows we couldn't afford to use our military to directly rule multiple nations, so our Empire would most likely use the Roman Empire's tactic of letting favored local elites govern while we maintained control of the military. We would also surely keep a close watch on nuclear power plants, pesticide producers and pharmaceutical manufacturers and end the conditioning of future terrorists by preventing schools and the media from bombarding innocent youths with virulent anti-American propaganda. Most importantly, however, our Empire would improve the living conditions for the majority of people in the lands we conquered.

Except for those we obliterated to get everyone's attention, of course. Any resistance, any uprising, we pull our troops back and destroy the city.

If there is not a radical change towards peace in the Muslim faith, if the people do not rise up and silence these hate-spewing clerics, we may have to wipe out the entire region. I do not write those words lightly, because I certainly do not want a billion deaths on my hands.

Something must be done, and no American can do it. We can only change conditions, we cannot change hearts. Those who are filled with hate will hate us no matter what, and if those who really want peace do not offer them up to us, we may be forced to "Kill them all and let God sort them out." Actually, the proper quote was "Kill them all. God will recognize His own."

Please do not make us do this. Because if there is a NBC Event (and I ain't talking television) we will.

The Big Weenie

You would think that Mr. Kerry had earned those Purple Hearts, but after this story I don't think so. It has been previously reported that out of three "wounds," he only spent one day in the hospital. And don't cha know...

Kerry was awarded two additional Purple Hearts for subsequent wounds that have also been described as minor. He then invoked a little-used regulation that entitled a triple Purple Heart winner to return to the United States.

So he only spends four months in-country, and then bails out on a technicality.

The citation for his medal also basically reads, "After taking fire from shore, Lt. Kerry grounds his boat, jumps out and shoots a dead VC."

I'll never see the light of day

Here was a PDB that laid the whole plan of 9/11 out and it was not even thought of worthy of the "Great" Clintons attention.

And it will never see the light of day because the one person who was responsible for it IS SITTING ON THE COMMISSION HERSELF. I forget her name, but multiple people have called for her resignation and she has refused. She should be giving testimony instead of on the commission. But the sole reason why she is on the commission and not testifying is to cover Clintons ass.

So the commission is turning into a partisan duck shoot, with Bush as the only target.

UPDATE: From Alpha Patriot:

On the subject of [Jamie] Gorelick recusing herself from the commission, according to staffers chairman Gov. Tom Kean asked Gorelick if she would step down but "she flat out shut him down".

"She's on that commission for a reason, and it isn't because of her brilliant legal mind," says a former DNC and Clinton White House staffer. "She's there to make sure Bush and his team look as bad as possible and to protect the Clintons and Reno."

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Kill Bill, Vol 1

Kill Bill is the 4th film by Quentin Tarantino, but I only have Pulp Fiction and From Dusk Till Dawn in addition to Kill Bill. I have been meaning to pick up Jackie Brown for a while, but have never gotten around to it.

I got Kill Bill, Vol 1 on DVD yesterday, to refresh myself of the story before I see Vol 2 in a few days. Vol 1 is, in classic Tarantino style, telling the story from the middle to the beginning and then to the end. It has gore galore, in an homage to Akira Kurasawa's movies. It also throws in a lot of John Woo's martial arts spinning moves, and even a bit of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I've been told that Vol 2 is more Spaghetti Western than martial arts, just to keep things fresh.

Tarantino has also made statements about Vol 3, which should come out in 15-20 years when the kid actors are old enough to be adults and continue the story.

No spoilers here, just rent the damn movie, okay? On my say so, you can tell the clerk at the video store that I sent you. He may look at you like you're crazy, but that's just part of the code.

Remember, AA is like one big infomercial, they are paying for every second of air time, as opposed to other talk stations paying for the shows and then recouping the cost by selling commercials.

Here's the full story, since Drudge put it on one of his temporary pages:

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies.

A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...

Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations.

An interesting turn of events, don't you think? To be fair, they did sign on one new station somewhere in the Northwest, but I'm not sure where. Frankin just kind of glossed over the whole situation. "We lost two stations, but we did pick one new one up, and on to other things..."

The George you don't know

In 1776, the American people threw off the oppressive yoke of King George III, and created the most free society the world had ever seen. But today, another King George — a Hungarian-born billionaire named George Soros, who rules a shadow empire by funding a global agenda that includes borderless civil disarmament — has made Americans less free than at almost any time in our nation’s history.

Democracy needs daily work

While I can't stand the positions of Liberals, they are there for a reason, to keep me honest. They cause me to critically examine my thoughts and actions to help me make sure that I am doing the right thing. Liberals provide a balance, their Yin to my Yang, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

With an end to a multiple party system, especially when that single party has Marxist objectives, disaster for true democracy cannot be far behind.

This situation makes clear that democracy is not a sure and natural thing, as long as people grab for personal power. The people must want freedom from the grassroots. South Africans are giving away freedom for safety, and we all know what Benjamin Franklin said about that.

This also disheartens me about Iraq. All of our sacrifice, all of our blood may come to naught if the people don't want freedom as Americans experience it. We can defeat all of the Ba'athists and foreign terrorists, but if they create their own government that is little different from what they had before, it will have all been a waste.

Freedom must be earned, it can never be given. And it must be done so every day.

Witticisms

Some people collect stamps, some collect cars. I collect the wisdoms written on bumper stickers. I keep finding and losing this link, BumperTalk, where you can get almost anything you want as far as a bumper sticker goes. Please check it out.

I may try to tackle some code to put this stuff at the top of my page, like American Realpolitik does.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

More attacks

I'll bet you didn't know

Texas didn't officially rejoin the Union. They introduce a bill every year to secede from the Union, which gets voted down by a vote or two. There were a couple of paperbacks about a Texas that did secede from the Union, and they were hilarious.

Texas has given all those complainers plenty of time to get used to the results. After seeing the whiners along the inauguration route, the folks from Texas have decided that we might just take matters into our own hands.

Here is our solution:
#1: Let John Kerry become President of the United States (all 49 states).
#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.

So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

Space: NASA is in Houston, Texas (we will control the space industry).

Defense Industry: We have over 65% of it. (The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.)

Gasoline: We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.

Oil: We can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.

Natural Gas: Again we have all we need and it's too bad about those northern states. John Kerry will figure a way to keep them warm....

Labor: We have a ready supply of workers (just open the border when we need some more).

Industry: We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.

National Defense: In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple of Texas Rangers. :-)

Food Supply: We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Kerry: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.

Off the cuff

I am the very model of a modern left wing democrat.
I vent my spleen and prattle in forums on the internet.
I can’t hold long a single thought. I need to take my Ritalin.
Now what was that you asked of me? Did I just take my vitamin?
I cannot lose an argument, so why don’t you get used to it.
I won’t concede a single point, even if there’s no truth in it.
No matter what you say to me, I’ll post back an ad-homenim.
Regardless of the things you do, you’re all BushHitler’s supermen
They call me Post-It Note’s bleat boy, and I post crap like it was true.
On all the countless websites that my drivel is cross-posted to.

Chorus:
We call him Post-It Note’s bleat boy, and he posts crap like it was true.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.
On all the countless weblogs that his drivel is cross-posted to.

Your weblog I will litter with my often posted snivelling
And you all have to pay the bill, supporting all my drivelling.
My posts sum up in six bad lines of mindless dreck and scribbling,
But lots of carps and doodoo too, plump out my posts with twiddling.
Impossible to penetrate much less on which to cogitate
I don’t see how you can relate, to my simplistic mental state.
I will flame you with invective till you yield to my perspective.
Of socialist utopia when we join the big collective.
My whole outlook is progressive my belief is so obsessive
All your taxes are regressive cause with stuff we are possessive.

Chorus:
His whole outlook is progressive his belief is so obsessive
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.
All our taxes are regressive cause with stuff they are possessive.

I’m ignorant of simple facts, both social and historical.
So don’t confuse me with your lies, just argue metaphorical.
No matter what you say to me, I’ll argue opposite you see.
If provably you show I’m wrong I’ll change the question joyfully.
My facts are bad, conclusions too, my arguments erroneous,
You’ll be crying oh “boo hoo”, cause I’m so sanctimonious.
My learning is extensive but is nothing more than Chomskyia,
Designed to fan my hatred of the Empire called Amerika,
Your ruler soon is coming down, we'll crush him like a big ass clown
John Kerry soon will wear the crown, so I don't care if you all drown.
I am the very model of a left wing personality.
I intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.

Chorus:
He is the very model of a left wing personality.
He’ll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.
He’ll intersperse mendacity with vacuous opacity.

Kerry, in his own words

I mention these not because they are a cause to go to war in and of themselves, as the President previously suggested, but because they tell a lot about the threat of the weapons of mass destruction and the nature of this man. We should not go to war because these things are in his past, but we should be prepared to go to war because of what they tell us about the future. It is the total of all of these acts that provided the foundation for the world's determination in 1991 at the end of the gulf war that Saddam Hussein must: unconditionally accept the destruction, removal, or rendering harmless under international supervision of his chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems... [and] unconditionally agree not to acquire or develop nuclear weapons or nuclear weapon-usable material. [emphasis mine]

I cannot understand how people can support a person who holds two views, almost simultaneously, on the same subject. You thought it was a joke when you read about it in 1984, but here he is today, as real as you or I.

This case now has two points on what the SCOTUS has to decide. Does the Pledge of Allegiance violate the bogus "church and state separation," and whether or not the dad has any standing to bring the case in the first place.

Now I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV, but this case should be decided thusly: A) The non-custodial parent does have a limited say in the raising of the child, and B) the Pledge stands as-is.

I am presently a non-custodial parent, and I would like some standing in having a say in how my son is raised. So my interest in at least part of this case is personal.

Monday, April 12, 2004

Second Shift

I have always wanted to greet you, my dear readers, with fresh posts each morning. That seems to be a fading wish right now. My attacks are back, and are debilitating me once again. Luckily they are only in the morning to early afternoon, so if I can just get through that time I'll be okay.

I'm going to try running this blog on the second shift, writing at night so you have something in the morning. The bad news is it will be with yesterdays time stamp. We'll just have to see how it works out.

After the attacks subsided, I was able to finish my latest Warhammer 40K piece, a Land Speeder Tornado.

I just noticed the crooked sticker, and destroyed it accidentally trying to fix it. I have to find my stash of stickers around here somewhere and fix it.

Air America

I encourage you to listen to Air America. It is important that you do so. Not because they have anything important to say, but rather that if all you listen to is Rush, Sean, Glenn, et. al., all you will do is make your mind mushy.

I listened to the last hour or so of Unfiltered, and was not impressed. One of the hosts called President Bush "warmonger" instead of by name and they had a guest on that was so radical that CNN wouldn't use him. She also liked saying several times that the President spent 40% of his time on his ranch in Crawford. I don't think she realizes that in this day of instant communications, he can be anywhere in the world and effectively run the US government.

They also had a couple of "commercials" that stuck out in my brain. One was about Iraq, where they said things like, "This country has not been aggressive, it does not have WMD, let's invade it!" The other commercial was a "Living Wage" one complaining about a health care company charging $17 per hour, but paying the person doing the work only $7. It doesn't talk about the qualifications for the job are minimal, like not even a high school diploma. If that's all the qualifications you have, why should you be paid more? I'll talk more about this later in the post.

The O'Frankin Factor was boring and so vanilla bland it wasn't funny. They did have an interview about this guy and his book, talking about the old Liberal saw of "making the rich pay their fair share."

Frankin has a friend who is a Ditto-Head. They have a short talk every day and Frankin plays a sound bite of Rush saying something and having his friend defend it. I would consider this unfair, as I don't think this friend has the qualifications to do the job. And of course, the quote is taken out of context to make it seem so extreme that Frankins position appears to be moderate. I'll talk more about this in a paragraph or two.

The last I listened to was Randi Rhodes. I would rather shave with a cheese grater than listen to her, she is that filled with anger and invectiveness. I could literally only stand a few minutes, both her tone of voice and what she was saying got to me.

Back to Rush: The quote played today was about how the Liberals preached "Don't resist" during hijackings and that has been wrong since the first hijacking. If the first hijacked aircraft had met with the same resistance of Flight 93, we would not have had any other hijackings. Just like Jewish passivity led to places like Auschwitz and Treblinka, the hijackings of the 70's lead directly into the WTC and the Pentagon. I can assure you there will never be another aircraft hijacking again, simply because (finally) the passengers will no longer allow it.

Back to the Living wage: I want to talk about this "Living Wage." There are all kinds of good paying jobs out there, but you need to work to get them. You have to complete high school with good grades, then go on to college or a technical school and learn a trade. If you don't invest in yourself, how can you expect to get a good paying job? Being 30 years old and just a HS graduate does not qualify you for a $40,000 a year job. Now if you spent years in the military and learned about operational systems, electronics and computers, then spent years as a work shop supervisor, being a leader, then you can say you are qualified for a position like that.

The jobs that pay less than $10 an hour are meant for the young kids who are still living at home, giving them spending money while they are still going to school. You aren't meant to live on such a wage and support a family. You are supposed to go to an advanced school and make something of yourself so you can make the big money.

This crosses the line

This really chaps my hide. A hero is a person who is full of courage. Courage is where you are scared witless but do what needs to be done regardless. Every man and woman, in uniform and out, who are not Iraqis but still went to make a difference in this country, and maybe the world in general are scared shitless. Any person who goes into combat and is not afraid is a fool.

I want to slug something I am so upset. Because this stains everybody in uniform. Your odds of getting killed in a peacetime exercise or even daily operations is way more than in the civilian world. In the Navy, you could get killed just performing maintenance onboard ship. All it would take is one person to ignore a tag-out at the wrong moment and you're gone. And that is at the dock, let alone at sea.

It takes bravery to put on a ballistic vest, get a weapon and march into combat, be it in Iraq or on the streets of your local municipality. It takes special people to run into a situation when everybody else is running out. And our soldiers, military, police and firefighters, do just that every day.

Ignore the words of this ignorant bastard. His distinguished military career consisted of one bombing raid in WWII where he was an observer.

Who's watching you?

Having someone watch you 300 times in a day would be very unnerving to me. It just doesn't seem right to me, but then again I have protected freedoms that Subjects of the Crown in Britain does not.

This is a very immature statement:

"I don't see a problem with the cameras," Codrington says. "If you're not breaking the law, then you have nothing to hide, right?"

Especially in light of an earlier part of the article, where I quote:

The invasion of privacy sometimes ruins lives. In Manchester, a TV show broadcast a CCTV still of a man accused of using a stolen bank card. It later turned out that the camera operator had submitted the wrong photo, but the apology came too late. The man lost his job and eventually suffered a nervous breakdown.

Nothing like having a governmental employee with an axe to grind against you really sticking it to you and/or your family, right?

You really need to get a copy of Will Smith and Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State and watch it. Then decide if your privacy is being invaded.

Sunday, April 11, 2004

2K Rollover!

I've always been one to watch the zeros roll around on the odometer of the vehicle I drive, it runs in the family. I just figured it out, from the time I started counting hits until 1,000, it took 119 days. To get from 1k to 2,000, it only took 86 days. I'm moving up in the world! That means I went from an average of 8.4 hits/day for the first thousand to 11.6 hits/day for the second thousand.

Let's spread the word out there about me and let's try for 15 hits a day! Woohoo!

Thank you to all of my visitors, especially those who hit the reload button a lot!

As you can see, I'm not getting more than an hour of sleep at a time. I'm pretty sure this is from the Abilify, since this started when I started taking them. This is not good, since you need about 90 minutes of sleep to get into a REM state.

Friday, April 09, 2004

*SNIFF*

I tbink I half a code. *sniff* *sniff* *sneeze* Either that or my allergies are really out of control. Either way, I feel miserable. I'm lucky my work place is closed for Good Friday. The bad news is they are open tomorrow. I'll have to see how I feel tomorrow morning.

Slavery

Slavery Lawsuit Could Go The Way of an Earlier, Failed One. Let's get this straight folks. When you analyze the distribution chain of the slave trade back in the old days, the chain started with one village of BLACKS raiding another village, putting them in bondage and taking them to the coast to be sold to the Dutch traders.

That's right, Blacks put Blacks into slavery. And it's still going on today in parts of Africa. Today. This minute. Now.

And these coddled people, who cannot imagine the conditions their ancestors were enslaved from, have some noble notion about how their ancestors (and present cousins) live. They want money for it.

I have no problem offering them a plane ticket (round-trip) from the US to Ghana, Chad, et. al. and let them experience life as their cousins do. I am quite sure they will come back with a healthy appreciation of their life here in the US.

VDH Friday

Out of all the recent chaos emerges one lesson: Appeasement of fundamentalists is not appreciated as magnanimity, but ridiculed as weakness - and, in fact, encourages further killing. A shaken Spain elected a new government that promised to exit Iraq. In return, the terrorists planted more bombs, issued more demands, and then staged a fiery exit for themselves. France, as is its historical wont, triangulated with the Muslim world and then found its fundamentalist plotters all over Paris. The Saudi royals thought that they of all people could continue to blackmail the fundamentalists - until the suicide-murderers turned their explosives on their benefactors and began to blow up Arab Muslims as well. General Musharraf once did all he could to appease Islamists - and got assassination plots as thanks.

Thursday, April 08, 2004

More stupid activists

This is the story of a little girl who was killed in her front yard by a coyote. A coyote who came out of the wilds looking for food because there are too many coyotes because they are protected.

This is what got to me:

[Pamelyn] Ferdin, a former child actress, said again Wednesday that she does not believe the girl died from a coyote attack. "I stand by my beliefs that a coyote did not kill (the girl)."

I'm not surprised, I'm not shocked, I'm not even disgusted anymore. The patent stupidity of this woman is so evident I wonder how she draws breath. When faced with the facts, she still sees what she wants to through her twisted paradigm.

My only concern is Ms. Ferdin might convince other people. It scares me that her stupidity might spread.

No better friend, no worse enemy...

After the insurgents holed up in the mosque struck a humvee vehicle with an RPG, lightly wounding five soldiers, the marines opted for their heavy weaponry.

First a warplane fired off guns, then a Cobra helicopter shot off a Hellfire missile at the mosque and finally an aircraft dropped a laser-guided precision bomb, Byrne said.

[...]

The head of the Marines First Division, General James Mattis, defended the attack, warning if rebels used places of worship in their war against US forces, his troops would not hesitate to strike them at sacred sites.

"If they barricade themselves inside a mosque, we are not going to care about the mosque anymore than they do," Mattis said.

The gloves are off and we made the message clear that there are no safe places for these bastards to hide.

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

To my Liberal readers

If you think 9/11 was a good thing like the guy here if you think we deserve more 9/11 scale attacks, please go away because I can't reason with you. I don't need your hits if you have such a mindset.

Now that I have your attention, please ask yourself, do you want another terrorist attack? No matter who the president is, would another 3,000-5,000 dead do anybody any good?

What would you do to prevent that attack? Nothing? Anything? Something in between? We've tried nothing, all it did was invite more attacks. We tried treating it like a police matter and punishing those directly responsible and we got two towers knocked down as a result. We've tried nothing, we've tried being policemen. With the fact of 9/11, and the possibility of more such attacks, we are left with the sole option of doing anything and everything to prevent another such attack.

Ask yourself, where do you want the terrorists carrying out attacks, New York or Najaf? Boston or Baghdad?

As long as one Muslim believes that we are the Great Satan, there will be more attacks. The very existence of this kind of people is a direct threat to us and our way of life. As long as we are willing to put up with people like bin Laden, the question is not "are we going to be attacked again," but "when and where will we be attacked again."

To what extent are YOU willing to go to prevent another attack? Retribution does no one any good, the victims won't come back to life because we wiped out those responsible. It is better to save everybody's life on both sides by preventing the attack in the first place.

Monumental change does not come without a price, and we are paying that price in blood today. But the question still remains, do we pay with the blood of hundreds of soldiers today to prevent the spilling of innocent blood by the thousands tomorrow? It is a question that demands an answer, and right now it is being answered in the streets of Iraq rather than the streets of the United States.

I've related this before, but it's worth repeating again.

In the miniatures wargames I play, I have learned to carry the battle to the enemy. I bring the attack to him, forcing him to fight on his side of the board on the defensive. As long as I can carry the fight to my enemy and make him react to my plans instead of carrying out his own plans, I win about 80% of the time. When I act defensively and let him bring the battle to me, I always lose.

And so it is in Iraq. Right now we have all of the terrorists and former Ba'athists in one section of Iraq, and as long as they concentrate their forces against our armed forces, they do not have the ability to attack us here in the States.

The conditions in the Middle East are deplorable compared to those in the United States. The only way to move up in their world right now is by dying gloriously and taking out infidels with them, earning 72 virgins in the process. The best way to solve that is to show them a better way. We need to show them freedom. The freedom to choose their own path rather than someone else telling them what to do.

This is a difficult process that will take years to get it right. It took us 8 years under the Articles of Confederation before we wrote the Constitution. South Africa is still working on democracy after 10 years. Whoever thinks the Iraqis will get this democracy thing right the first time is living in a fantasy world.

It is not going to be easy, but then again, those things worth having are never easy to get.

Intellectual dishonesty

When I'm not on the computer in the mornings, I listen to Glenn Beck. Despite his biting sarcasm, he is a first rate commentator.

This morning, he took on Frank. Frank is a classic liberal, Bush lied, etc. But he blinded himself to reality. Frank made a wonderful case about Bush and Iraq (twisted, but wonderful), but when compared to other American actions, he just stuttered for a moment and began the Bush lied all over again. Frank talked about how world opinion is against us in Iraq, but "forgot" that it was against us in Bosnia as well.

This is how you defeat a Liberal. Let him make a case against Bush, then compare what Bush has done to what Clinton has done. You drive the Liberals into an apoplectic frenzy when you confront them with their own words.

The next time a Liberal confronts you about Bush lied, point out that the UN and Clinton said the same things about Iraq.

When they hit you about Bush's "unilateral" non-UN approved action in Iraq, point out Bosnia.

It makes sense to a Liberal that Clinton does one thing and it's okay, but when Bush does it also, it's bad.

All this does is reveal the deep, pathological hatred Liberals have for Bush. All this would have been okay if Gore had done it. Bush could stand on his head and spit nickels and the Liberals would not be happy. As long as there is a Republican in the White House Liberals will complain and hold their breath until they turn blue, just like little children.

And that is how you have to treat Liberals, like little children. You have to be firm with them, point out where they are being silly and send them to bed without a story.

Monday, April 05, 2004

On a more technical matter

I agree with the assertion that this will cost somebody's life, and soon. Lack of communication will get you killed when you are a police officer.

There are two plans on the table, first is to make the cell companies clean up their act and equipment and stop producing the interference. Second is to reband the spectrum so that public safety and cell phone frequencies are not so close.

Nextel, the major culprit in this story, has a plan they can profit on. They pay for rebanding the public safety radios and give up some of their spectrum (costing them $850,000,000) and getting a different part of the spectrum, worth about $3,000,000,000 (that's billion). The problem is this plan will take about 3-4 years to do.

I like to see both solutions implemented. Get rid of the interference now, and reband everybody to permanently solve the problem.

I just don't like to see someone profit off of a problem they are the source of. It makes it seem that it was done at least somewhat deliberately.

Spain is getting picked on, still

Well, it seems like the bomb on the tracks was by the same group of bastards that set off the bombs on the trains. It also seems like most of the group has been killed or tracked down. Terrorists Warn Spain of 'Inferno'.

The terrorists want Spanish forces out of Iraq as of yesterday the 4th, which the only way that could have happened was if they had just abandoned all of their equipment on the ground as-is and just jumped on the next flight home.

Since the deadline was not met, will what is left of this or any other terror cells start new bombings? Of course, now that the first demand was given into, there will be more demands, and more, and more. How about, "More Spaniards will die if the Prime Minister doesn't appear on TV and hop in a counter-clockwise direction with one foot in the air?" That is just as sensible as any demand the terrorists have.

Air America encroachment

Normally, syndicated shows are bought by the station. The station then uses the commercial time to pay for the show fees, operating expenses and then make a profit.

Air America is having to pay to have it's message put on the air. The station(s), recognizing sucky programming when they see it, want their money up front from AA because they are doubtful that they can actually sell advertising space on these "shows."

This was an all-Black station, until AA came along. Now it's only Black between Midnight and 5am. And the listeners of the station aren't too happy with all of these White folk coming in and taking over their air time.

This station used to reach out to all types of Black listeners. Now they are going to carry garbage like "the O'Frankin Factor." If AA was planning on driving the Black vote to the GOP, this will do it in very short order.

Consequences of your actions

It seems that Senator Kerry is in a bit of a quandary. Politics cloud Kerry's Easter plans. Being a pro-choice Catholic, his Bishop is threatening to withhold Communion if he doesn't straighten up and adhere to the church's teachings and positions.

Which is maybe why he's been stumping in non-Catholic churches lately.

Mr. Kerry was in St. Louis on March 28, but he sidestepped the Communion issue by attending New Northside Missionary Baptist Church, where he quoted a few verses from the second chapter of James.

Saturday, April 03, 2004

Finally, RSS

I'm still not sure what RSS is, but when I registered with Blogstreet tonight, they had the option so I signed up for it. Hopefully it will increase my readership. The more hits I have, the happier I am.

The shoals of reality

I'm a little late in bringing this to your attention because my bandwidth has been reduced from the size of the Mississippi to a coffee straw. So my reading has been severely restricted.

Bill Whittle at Eject! Eject! Eject! has come up with Chapter Two of his latest creation. Here is but a sample:

It is not a palatial hall of great minds looking for answers and then testing them in the real world; it is a basement in your parents house filled with lazy and filthy hippies eating your leftovers and drinking the last of your milk. Intellectualism is certainly not the same as intelligence, and more and more, it is becoming antithetical to intelligence. When well-off people who call themselves intellectuals drive their SUV's to march in support of Marxism, you can see the chasm between intellectualism and intelligence in full flower. When elitists who fancy themselves brighter and more compassionate than the rest of us choose to support the Taliban, with its stoning of women and execution of homosexuals in football stadiums before mandatory audiences, over a representative democracy with unparalleled structural protections of minorities and freedoms of expression, then self-styled intellectuals have abandoned intelligence altogether, as well as morality, reason, compassion and indeed sanity.

Read the rest, then ask yourself where you are, the chartroom or on the weather deck.

Friday, April 02, 2004

Bearing arms

It talks about the softening the Oath of Allegiance given to people becoming full citizens, changing several sections.

Now, I don't necessarily have a problem with the new wording, as the leak has presented them. What bothers me is they (the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)) are supposed to have a 60 day comment period, where they ignored this period for some reason, likely to stifle any opposition to the changes.

During his testimony, [Congressman] Mr. Ryun said USCIS acted hastily to change the wording, ignoring the standard 60-day period for public comment.

"The proposed changes intended to make the language more modern, but instead would transform an absolute commitment to the Constitution into a conditional statement and thereby weaken our citizenship," said Mr. Ryun, noting the elimination of "the call to bear arms."

It could be that the USCIS officials in question are holophobes. You never know.

The elephant in the room

It has long been on talk radio and all over the blogosphere that the 527's are 90% Liberal and doing their damnedest to unseat President Bush, bypassing the Campaign Finance Reform Law. The very law these people were screaming over to make fund-raising more 'fair.'

"Simply put, the Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party have been unable to fund-raise to a level of hard dollars that they think is necessary for their campaign efforts," the GOP complaint says.

"Instead, they have chosen to rely on an illegal conspiracy of donors and shadowy groups to defeat President Bush."

It seems that the Democrats have been hoisted by their own petard on this one. They create a complex law to hinder raising shady money. Then, when the Republicans beat them at their own game, using these rules, the Dems have to cheat to even stay in the game. They have to funnel large amounts of money prohibited to the candidate into these 527 (section of the tax code) committees and organizations such as MoveOn.org and their ilk to keep the political ads rolling and trying to sway public opinion.

I hope either the Republicans form a few of their own 527's to even the score, or plug this hole in the CFR law.

Don't trust them

This is serious business. The very future of the nation is at risk thanks to the socialist elite who dominate the mainstream media. They have an agenda, one that begins with an all-out effort to defeat George W. Bush as a first step in putting the United States back into the hands of one of the most sinister and malignant political forces ever to seek power over the American people - what passes for the once honorable Democrat party now firmly in the hands of a corrupt socialist elite.

You can't be any more serious than that. John Kerry and his Socialist policies will undo all of the good that President Bush has done, and cause more damage on top of that.

Despite his high poll numbers at the moment, you have to admit that Kerry is as boring as a sack of potatoes. He lacks the energy and charisma to energize his base enough to actually go out and vote. That and the fact that it appears that everything he has is against Bush, but has no plan of his own outside of, "I wouldn't have done it that way!" There are a lot of things he's against, but not so many things he's for.

I think that the majority of voters will see that the one person who is doing the right thing is Bush. While Clinton opened his presidency with the phrase, "We are the most ethical administration the country has ever seen, " (to be followed with so many "-gates" that it wasn't funny). Bush has set the ethical standard for past and present administrations to be measured against.

Kerry doesn't have a leg to stand on ethically. He is on the both sides of every issue and that alone will defeat him. The Bush political ads just have to have video of Kerry saying one thing, then contradicting himself. Play ads like that for the next few months and let's see how well Kerry fares.